Curry-comb



' (No Model.)

G. J. WALDRON.

. r CURRY OOMB.- i No. 365,885. Patented July 5, 1887 XA/M NITED STATES rrrcn.

CORNELIUS J. \VALDRON, OF MEDUSA, NIHV YORK.

CURRY-COMB.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 365,885, dated July 5, 1887.

Application filed November 23, 1886.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CORNELIUS J. WAL- DRON,Z1 citizen of the United States, and a resident of Medusa, in the county of Albany and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gurry-Oombs, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The objectof my inventionis to provide with curry-combs an elastic hammer, which is so arranged with the comb and in such a relation to the back of the same and the handle that the operator can at will cause the hammer to strike with greater or less force on the back of the comb, or on a piece fixed thereto, so as to jar off from the teeth of the comb the dust and other substances which usually adhere to the same when the comb is being used on an animal. I attain this object by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, fornr ing a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a view from the upper side or back of the comb with my improvement ap plied thereto. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a front end view. Figs. 4 and 5 are side elevations of curry-combs, having each a modified form of elastic connection between the hammer and comb and embodying the essential features in this invention.

The same letters of reference refer to like parts throughout the same views.

The curry-comb A is constructed in any suitable manner known to the trade, and with any suitable form and of any suitable material, and is provided with handle a, rigidly secured thereto, by which the comb can be operated.

B is a hammer made of a piece of metal of any suitable form and weighing about one-half of an ounce, more or less,a nd Ois an elastic arm between the said hammer and the body of the comb,or the handle of the same; or any suitable piece secured to the said body or handle as can be selected. This hammer B is securely connected with the free or outer end of this elastic arm 0 by rivets c, or any known suitable means, and it is preferably so arranged in relation to the body of the comb that its face side, 0, will be relatively opposite the forward middle portion of the said body, as illustrated in the several figures, yet it is evident that this hammer can be arranged over some other portion of Serial No. 219,632. (No model.)

the body of the comb-as, say, over the central portion of said body, or at one side of such center, or toward either end of the said body, or at any other point in the body where the blow of the hammer will effect a jarring of the entire body of the comb when it is operated to strike on the latter.

D is a stiffening-piece extended from the rear or handled side of the body of the comb to the front. side edge of the same, and suitably secured to the back of the same at a place thereon which will bring a portion of said piece, preferably its forward portion, directly beneath the face e of the hammer B, as shown. This stiffening-piece operates to communicate the shock or jar from the blow of the hammer to all portions of the body of the comb.

The handle a is connected with the comb by any suitable shank or other known means, and preferably by means of shank (2, made in connection with the stiffening-piece D.

The arm 0, connecting the hammer B with the comb, can be made to consist of a narrow thin piece of steel having a tang end, 0 entered into the handle a with the tang of shank d, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2; or the said arm 0 can be made bow-shaped and secured to the body A of the comb, as illustrated in Fig. 4; or it can be connected with the handle from its outside in any suitable manner, or substantially as illustrated in Fig. 5.

In operating my above-described improvement, the operator will simply give to the comb a sudden short shake in a downwardly direction, as indicated by arrow in Fig. 2, when the rapid movement'of the operators hand will .carry the comb quickly downwardly to the finish of the shake without the hammer simultaneously accompanying the same, so that the hammer will be for an instant relatively at a short distance above the comb or stiffening piece D on the same, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2. Then at the finish of this downward shake of the comb and at the time of its sudden stoppage of movement of the same the arm 0, by reason of its elasticity, will give to the hammer B an impulsive movement in direction of the comb and strike the same with a sharp rap or blow, which willso shock all parts of the same as to jar off from all its parts the dust and dirt before accumulated on it, and the ICO -blow from this hammer 13, though effective for I The combination, with a curry-comb having jarring off the dust and dirt, will be of such a a rigid handle, of an elastic arm attached character as not to contribute in the least to thereto, and having at its free end a hammer, the injury of the comb or the loosening of its as described, and for the purpose set forth.

- 5 connection with its handle, as is the case when the comb is knocked on its back or its ends CORNELIUS J. VVA-LDRON. against a Wall, floor, or other object, as heretofore required. Witnesses:

' Having described myinvention,whatIclaim W. R. LOBDELL,

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